Global Perspectives: decolonial feminism

Françoise Vergès discusses the history of counter revolution against women’s liberation from the 1970s to the 2000s and the forms it concretely took (femonationalism, femi-imperialism in the name of women’s rights) and current forms of decolonial feminism. Speaker: Dr Françoise Vergès, Chair of Global South, Collège d'études Mondiales, Paris Chair: Professor Tamar Garb FBA, Durning-Lawrence Chair of History of Art, UCL

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